FAMILLE ROSE 'MANTIS AND CICADA' VASE REPUBLIC PERIOD thinly potted, painted on the tapered body with bare willow branches perched by large cicadas, a praying mantis raised its sharp front legs ready to strike, inscribed with a poem and signed 'Li Ming Liang' to one side, the base inscribed with a six-character'Jing Zhen Hua Feng Gong Si' (Hua Feng Company in Jin Town) in iron-red (Dimensions: 24cm high) (Qty: 1) (24cm high) Qty: (1) Footnote: Note: Li Mingliang, a renown porcelain painter in the Republic Period, one of the 'Zhushan Eight Friends', active in the 1930s to 1940s, specialises in depicting insects and floral